The 1970s: A Delicate Shanghai Beauty's Life with the Army

[A Two-Faced, Ice-Cold Tyrant on the Outside, a Dotingly Possessive Husband on the Inside] x [A Sweet, Spoiled Shanghai Darling with a Playful Streak]

Wen Xi, a Shanghai darling, hastily marries the cold-faced army officer Zhou Ye to avoid being sent to the countryside, then follows him north after their wedding.

Once she joins the army, she sleeps until late morning every day, wears a different dress each day, and heads out just to buy candy and biscuits.

Everyone in the family compound is waiting to see her make a fool of herself. Who is Zhou Ye? The famously cold-faced tyrant, a man of few words and ruthless action. Even the toughest troublemakers in his regiment go weak in the knees when they see him.

Everyone thinks the two of them are completely unsuited to each other, and that before long this delicate young lady will be heading back to Shanghai.

But no one could have imagined that after they married, the cold-faced officer would spoil her without limit.

She can't cook, so he makes every meal and sets it in front of her. When she twists her ankle, he helps her with the chamber pot and even brushes her teeth and washes her face. Before he leaves on a mission, he goes out of his way to ask the neighbors to look after her.

Wen Xi takes Zhou Ye's care for granted.

Until Zhou Ye is injured during a mission and comes home wounded. To keep her from worrying, he insists he was only gored by a wild boar.

Wen Xi laughs until she doubles over, but then she hears a neighbor say that Zhou Ye was nearly swept away by a flash flood and only just made it back alive.

She looks at his battered back and sobs uncontrollably.

Zhou Ye helplessly pulls her into his arms to comfort her. "Stop crying. I didn't die in the flood, but you're going to cry me to death."

The next day, when she sees Zhou Ye still laying a path for her despite his injuries, Wen Xi suddenly realizes she wants to take better care of him, too.

What she doesn't expect is that when she brings him a bowl of overcooked noodles, this iron-faced, hard-hearted soldier will actually have tears in his eyes.